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According to RSF data, the number of journalists imprisoned in Iran has been unprecedented for the last two decades. RSF calls for the immediate release of all detained journalists and concrete steps to reverse this deterioration in press freedom.

RSF welcomes the sentencing and emphasises the need for full criminal justice for all those involved in Caruana Galizia’s murder.

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. should demonstrate his stated commitment to press freedom by ending the State’s attempts to jail Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa, the Hold the Line Coalition has urged.

RSF condemns the murder of Nagihan Akarsel, a Kurdish magazine editor and influential feminist advocate, who was gunned down outside her home in Iraqi Kurdistan on 4 October. 

Several journalists have been arrested in Iran amid a wave of protests about Mahsa Amini’s death in detention after her arrest by the morality police. RSF calls for their immediate release and condemns the surge in violations of the right to information.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and a coalition of 24 human rights NGOs urge for the release of Chinese investigative journalist Huang Xueqin, who was arrested exactly one year ago for allegedly 'inciting subversion of state power'.

Pham Doan Trang refused to plead guilty to “anti-state propaganda.” RSF calls on Vietnam’s commercial partners to use their trade agreements with Hanoi to press for the release of this journalist, who was awarded the RSF Press Freedom Prize in 2019.

​​​​​​​According to a Reporters Without Borders survey, in the year since the Taliban took power on 15 August 2021, Afghanistan has lost 39.59% of its media outlets and 59.86% of its journalists, especially women journalists.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on Timor-Leste’s authorities to put the public interest first by dropping charges against a journalist accused of violating judicial confidentiality.